(Q16754)
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28 November 2023
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Bible : Old and New Testament : in Latin].
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Bible.
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Chevalier, Nicholas
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Morris, William, 1834-1896
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--France
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1250 and 1299
13. century
1250Gregorian
1299Gregorian
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Extent: 451 leaves : parchment, ill. ; 318 x 230 (215 x 155) mm bound to 33 cm in box 35 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: intelligunt. Taceo ...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. iii (modern paper) + 451 ; 1-158 166 17-348 35-366 37-438 448+1 (fol. "346" tipped in singleton, currently loose and laid in, final canon table leaf), 45-548 556 56-588 ; catchwords preserved, lower center margin of the final verso of each quire ; original foliation of roman numerals in lower margin of each recto, skips 330-339 and thus reaches 426 instead of 416 at...
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Layout: Two columns, 56 lines, bounding and writing lines in light plummet.
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Script: Written in a gothic bookhand, with some cursive features in brown ink with red rubrics. Chapter numbers alternate red and blue epigraphic capitals.
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Decoration (primary): Fol. 1r: 25-line historiated initial (the [F] of "Frater"), Jerome (nimbed) seated at a writing desk, in gold and colors with diapered blue background and a dragon in the stem of the letter; fol. 4v: 22-line historiated [I] of "In principio," with the days of creation in round medallions arranged in two parallel registers (days 1-4 at left, 5-6 at right), with three...
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Decoration (secondary): Two-line historiated initials throughout alternating red with blue or blue with red filigree; psalm verse initials mid-line alternate red and blue; 10- to 20-line initials throughout in red and blue with elaborate red and blue filigree infill also extending into margins.
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Binding: Ca. 19th-century brown morocco, with "Biblia Sacra/Latine/Manuscriptum/Saeculi XIII" stamped on the spine. Conservation rebinding performed in 2015.
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Origin: Written in France in the second half of the 13th century.
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Provenance: Unidentified arms of early owner on fol. 4v (or three roses argent); used from the 16th century on for birthnotes by one Durant family, living near Montargis (see inscriptions, partially effaced, final folio recto and verso); Nicolas Chevalier (1562-63), his arms were on the former old calf binding (see William Morris sales catalogue); William Morris, his sale (London 1898, n. 169...
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Immediate source of acquisition: Acquired by Sydney Cockerell for BPL in December 1900, accessioned 29 April 1901.
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Call number: MS f Med.1.
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Former call number: MS G.401.11.
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Bibliography: Zoltan Haraszti, "Medieval Manuscripts in The Library," More Books III (1928): 57.
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4 December 2023
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